Paul Krugman Audio & Video

Congressman Barney Frank and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman discuss the federal government's role in addressing economic and social problems, particularly growing inequality in our society.

America emerged from Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal with strong democratic values and broadly shared prosperity. But for the past thirty years American politics has been dominated by a conservative movement determined to undermine the New Deal’s achievements.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman talks with David Gergen of the Harvard Kennedy School about the foundations of the liberal political and economic systems. In the current economic downturn, Krugman asks what we learn from past liberal successes and failures.

New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman discusses his new book, The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century with WBUR's Tom Ashbrook.

The Debt and the Deficit with Paul Krugman, David Walker of Peterson Foundation, Alan Auerbach of Univ. of Cal-Berkeley, Rep. John Spratt and Mohamed El-Erian of PIMCO.

The U.S. has had more than 70 years to come to terms with the Great Depression, and we really thought we knew how to avoid another one, says Paul Krugman. “It wasn’t supposed to be possible. Then came the current crisis.”

Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has some generally dismal news in this talk, held in conjunction with Krugman's visit to Yale to receive the Henry E. Howland Memorial Prize, one of the highest honors that the University bestows.

New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman and Maya MacGuineas discuss and decipher the difficult issues facing America's largest public program, social security.

With huge budget surpluses just ahead, the question of whether to cut taxes has shifted to when and by how much?...

In this long-awaited audiobook containing some of Krugman's most influential columns along with new commentary, he chronicles how the boom economy unraveled.